boto

[ boh-toh ]

noun

, plural bo·tos.

1. a freshwater South American dolphin, Inia geoffrensis, having a long snout and fluctuating in color between pink and gray: inhabits the Amazon and Orinoco river systems.

Example Sentences

Boto's "Mefistofele" belongs of course to a subsequent period.

From Project Gutenberg

Boto, on the other hand, in his evident desire to do justice to Goethe, has attempted too much and achieved too little.

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Boto, in his setting, sounds Goethe's drama to greater depths than Gounod.

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It does not appear in Shakespeare, so that the lines are as original with Boto as the music is with Verdi.

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It appeared in Italia of the day after the performance, at which, it may be mentioned, Boto applauded vigorously from a box.

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